This resource includes a link to the teacher's free Annotation Bookmark (via Teachers Pay Teachers). Here, a sixth grade teacher demonstrates the strategies she uses for getting her students to annotate with sticky notes. Teaching Students to Close Read.When You Can't Mark the Text (Performing in Education) Sometimes students are asked to annotate books they don't own or can't write in for other reasons. This resource provides some strategies for using sticky notes instead. This blog post, written by a student, talks about how the goals and approaches of annotation might change depending on the type of text or performance being observed.Īnnotating Texts with Sticky Notes (Lyndhurst Schools)
This video tutorial (appropriate for grades 6–10) explains the basic ins and outs of annotation and gives examples of the type of information students should be looking for.Īnnotation Practices: Reading a Play-text vs.
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How to Annotate Text While Reading (YouTube) This is a good place for a student who has never annotated before to begin. This resource gives an overview of annotation styles, including useful shorthands and symbols. What is Annotating? (Charleston County School District) But what tools do you need? How do you prepare? The resources linked in this section list strategies and techniques you can use to start annotating. Once you understand what annotation is, you're ready to begin. It includes a helpful section that teaches students how to annotate reading comprehension passages on tests. This website provides another introduction to annotation (designed for 11th graders). It also discusses how technology and digital texts might affect the future of annotation.Īnnotating to Deepen Understanding (Texas Education Agency) This scholarly article summarizes research on the benefits of annotation in the classroom and in business.
The Future of Annotation (Journal of Business and Technical Communication) In this article, a high school teacher discusses the importance of annotation and how annotation encourages more effective critical thinking. How Annotation Reshapes Student Thinking (TeacherHUB) This famous, charming essay lays out the case for marking up books, and provides practical suggestions at the end including underlining, highlighting, circling key words, using vertical lines to mark shifts in tone/subject, numbering points in an argument, and keeping track of questions that occur to you as you read. The links in this section will introduce you to the theory, practice, and purpose of annotation. In other words, proper annotation is an organizing tool and a time saver. Why annotate? As the resources below explain, annotation allows students to emphasize connections to material covered elsewhere in the text (or in other texts), material covered previously in the course, or material covered in lectures and discussion. So, whether you're reading a novel, poem, news article, or science textbook, taking notes along the way can give you an advantage in preparing for tests or writing essays. This guide contains resources that explain the benefits of annotating texts, provide annotation tools, and suggest approaches for diverse kinds of texts the last section includes lesson plans and exercises for teachers. Proper annotation allows students to record their own opinions and reactions, which can serve as the inspiration for research questions and theses. Annotation is like a conversation between reader and text. Or, at least (according to education experts), annotation–an umbrella term for underlining, highlighting, circling, and, most importantly, leaving comments in the margins–helps students to remember and comprehend what they read.
Writing in your books can make you smarter.
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